Santorum: I’ll Bomb Iran

With the Iowa Caucuses looming the various primary candidates are looking to secure additional votes in last minute TV interviews and speeches around the state. Former Senator Rick Santorum (R – PA), who has recently been shown surging in the polls, focused his comments on which war he’d start if elected.

The former Senator sought to take as hawkish a position as possible, while chiding President Obama, claiming that Obama’s failure to attack Iran risked turning the US “into a paper tiger.” Recent polls have shown Santorum a strong third in Iowa, and the effort to differentiate himself from Mitt Romney, whose policy is to destroy Iran through financial sanctions, and Rep. Ron Paul (R – TX) who has taken the policy of not destroying Iran at all, seems aimed at closing the gap with the top tier.

Iran’s civilian nuclear program includes a US-built research reactor, a Russian built power generating reactor, and enrichment facilities. As a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty Iran has continued to give the IAEA access as required under its safeguards agreement, but that access has been condemned by US hawks as insufficient.

Author: Jason Ditz

24 thoughts on “Santorum: I’ll Bomb Iran”

Santorum has to realize that the US is looking like all other nations that want to commit naked aggression. These nations, such as the USSR attack on Finland, Japan's attack on China, and Germany's attack on Poland, in World War II, always stated their reasons to their people in advance. As in the case of the US aggression towards Iraq in 2003 and possibly against Iran in 2012 these reasons are mostly fabrications.

The real reason why the US, Israel, and the West want to attack Iran is stop Iran becoming a greater power in the reason. One reason why the US did not advance on Bagdad and left Saddam in power in the 1991 Gulf War was because he was such a counter weight to the advancement of Iran in the region. The US is alarmed by Iranian influence over the new Iraqi government and the fact that it is entering into oil export deals with Afghanistan.

I like Uri Avnery's comment on the US and Britain arranged coup in post war Iran:

"In 1951, in the first democratic elections in an Islamic country in the region, Mohammad Mossadegh was elected prime minister. The shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been installed by the British during World War II, was thrown out, and Mossadegh nationalized the country’s vital oil industry. Until then, the British had robbed the Iranian people, paying a pittance for the black gold.

Two years later, in a coup organized by the British MI6 and the American CIA, the shah was brought back and returned the oil to the hated British and their partners. Israel probably had no part in the coup, but under the restored regime of the shah, Israel prospered. Israelis made fortunes selling weapons to the Iranian army. Israeli Shabak agents trained the shah’s dreaded secret police, Savak. It was widely believed that they also taught them torture techniques. The shah helped to build and pay for a pipeline for Iranian oil from Eilat to Ashkelon. Israeli generals traveled through Iran to Iraqi Kurdistan, where they helped the rebellion against Baghdad. "

Britain did the same thing in Azerbajain in 93 to secure Caspain oil sector under British control with western and allied energy companies under the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) oil consortium which includes among others Delta Nimir Khazar that financed the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by US asset Khalid bin Mahfouz who also brokered the PROMIS spyware software to Mid East countries during the 80''s.http://www.nlpwessex.org/docs/watscarlett.htmhttp://www.network54.com/Forum/84302/thread/12860…

What would bombastic Rick the "abortion kills SS" crusader react if both Russia and China informed him that they would react militarily to such action? What a servile statement to curry neocon and zionist votes?.

People are so crazy and immoral in this country that they will support anyone who continues the military killing spree juggernaut which has been ongoing since the end of the nineteenth century. We are a nation of murderers and thieves. It is called patriotism and capitalism. Grab what you can. Kill everyone who resists. American foreign policy.

No one ever said it any better!
“The next time some armchair warrior, some warvangelical, some member of Congress, some reich-wing nationalist, some bloodthirsty conservative, some warmongering Republican, some red-state fascist, some neocon, or some theocon beats the drums for war – like they are doing regarding Iran right now – tell him to put his son in uniform, put him on the first plane overseas, and tell his son what a noble cause it is that he is being sent to die for. Let him tell his son how much his death will be worth it. And if he doesn’t think it worth the death of his son, then it is not worth the death of any other American’s son either.” Laurence Vance, December 30, 2011 http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance272.html

For someone (Santorum) who pontificates on his "fiscally responsible" creds, someone needs to ask him, after he beats his chest and the war drums, how he plans on paying for another ground war. Has he not been paying attention the past 10 years? Does he not understand that the financial problems the US is facing (well, some of them anyway) were predicated on having to borrow 90% of the funds for Operation Iraqi Freedom (Liberation) from the hated Chinese?

And, all these chickenhawks claim that they'll take the advice of the GENERALS before attacking – well, the majority of the GENERALS are, and have been saying, that attacking Iran now, with the Army in the condition that it currently is in (because of 10 years of under-funded warfare) would be a drastic mistake. So, does he take the advice or press on, advice-be-damned, and finish the job of destroying the Army?

These guys just don't get it. War, and making war, only benefits less than 1% (my guess) of those it affects. Everyone else suffers, some more than others. Most are innocent.

That's an act of war buddy. It amazes me how American politicians so casually threaten to attack other countries as if they are just ordering coffee at a diner. What other country in the world has a political class as degenerate as this?

Here is a guy, chickenhawk, who would bomb Iran right away if they didn't do exactly what he wanted them to do. Hmmm, I guess the constitution really doesn't exist after all. The dumb ass commentator should have stopped him right there and say, where do you get your authority to do such a thing but I know we no longer follow article one section 8. In any case, real easy for Santorum to bomb Iran but then what? Big question is what happens afterward? This is why I hate, I detest Republicans (save Ron Paul) and Democrats; they are a threat to our lives and a threat to our ecomonic viability.

It becomes more and more obvious that the election is about Ron Paul vs everyone else. If you're not going to vote for RP you might as well not bother voting. All the others, including Obama, are just fascist war mongering fools who will continue the rapid decline of the US.

Genocide is US! Not much to say anymore, but our fathers who fought against fascism would just wonder that we not only allow the country to be ruled by military laws but also commit the same war crimes as the Nazis.

The US – Hollywood military complex has put the game and the sanity of drones, Airforce in order to cover up plain naked murder of millions.

Americans need to have a German moment – the moment that showed the Germans that their deed were evil.